To give you Photoshop software users to detailed analysis to share the Nik Collection Novice teaching tutorials.
Nik Collection Introduction
is free a good thing? For the use of the home is of course a good thing, especially without contact with the professional plug-ins is the experience of the great opportunity. But for this plug-in loyal to the home is more sure that Google has no intention to develop this set of late Plug-ins, it is a pity. Originally is expensive to the daunting outside of the Google has not acquired Nik Software before, Nik is the PS plug-in industry famous first-line company, there were even Nik Software Podcast, every week, please use Nik Software photographers to share their experience. Today free Nik collection that is the Nik Complete Bundle, the price as high as us$499.95, equivalent to HK hk$3900, the General people will not consider, enthusiasts such as younger brother will only buy one of the Plug-ins (when the buy is a color Efex Pro), but it has also cost thousands of dollars. After Google's acquisition in 2013, the generous complete bundle price down to us$149, the use of the home is also beginning to worry about whether the plug-in has stepped to death. However, the worry is reasonable, because in fact, in this three years apart from a new plug-in called "analog Efex pro", all the other plug-ins have not been updated. Why should I use it? Because each plug-in company has its own special method of operation, so that the photo has a unique tone and style. You can think of it as a professional version of the Instagram filter, and some people will ask: Photoshop alone? In fact, even if you do, it may involve a lot of steps, very time-consuming, and some effects let you work hard, but also just close, so the purchase of Plug-ins can make you relatively do not need to spend too much time to achieve professional results.
Nik Collection Many plug-ins, the younger brother is the most used is color Efex Pro, it contains 55 different styles, the use of filters, the home can according to their own preferences "mix" these filters, combined into their own unique style. What filters to use depends on the needs of each photo and the style and experience of the home. If you are completely without the concept of a new home, the following demonstration is the younger brother accustomed to the process, hope can inspire everyone. Note that this teaching is best to have a certain Photoshop foundation, I will try to clarify each step.
▲ This photo has been adjusted in the Lightroom basic values, such as enhanced small sharpness, light and dark adjustment and dust particles, the most important is the white balance for the photo "tone", and then use Color Efex Pro for further revision in PS.
Color Efex Pro Main screen
▲ This is the screen that opens the color Efex, each region explains as follows? 1 Place the filters here, as long as the point of the filter name, will be in the center of the photo real-time effect preview; 2 You can click here to see the original piece and add the effect after the difference; 3 zoom in and out preview photos; 4 can fine-tune the intensity for each filter here, Or, plus another filter, you can even control the only part of the photo with a specific filter effect, 5 photo effect preview, 6 when you press OK, and the program will automatically add an added effect to Photoshop layer. The first filter in this photo uses "skylight filter", which strengthens the color of sunsets and sunrises for photos, and recommends that you do not use them too strongly to avoid being out of the picture, and then press OK after adding them.
▲ The second filter uses the "detail extractor", and to be honest, I'm less likely to use this filter because it's easy to make the whole picture "fake", but the filter can bring out the details of the building's dark bits. The preset intensity is used this time.
▲ Layer Mask (layer mask) is used to "detail extractor" filter effect for architecture. You are not familiar with the layer mask, you can use the color efex Pro "control point" control.
▲ The third filter for this photo plus is "tonal contrast", if you always feel that their photos and the master is a little bit sharp and level, it is likely to owe this professional secret recipe. But the color Efex Pro "tonal contrast" filter uses also the key technique, only simply adds is not cannot, just is not so ideal will appear very amateur, because will affect the whole picture color, next teaches everybody solves this question.
▲ As with filters "detail extractor", I just want to "tonal contrast" for buildings, but also use layer masks. In addition, the blending mode from normal to brightness will solve the effect of color.
▲ The most common mistake for beginners to use plug-ins is to overdo it, and to avoid this step is very useful? Select top Layer Press Ctrl/command + Alt + Shift + E to merge all layers into one top layer (that is, layer 1 above), and then at the bottom of the original background layer, press Ctrl/command + J to copy a map layer.
▲ and then the original copy of the layer to remove the layer 1 below, minus layer 1 opacity, reduce how much is enough to see your experience, before too heavy hand words on the reduction of more, here I reduce to 76%.
If you are still not enough, want to add some style effect, you can use color Efex Pro Cross processing, or I like Analog Efex Pro for the final processing.
▲analog Efex is a set of analog film filters, this time using the classic Camera 7, I will remove dust and scratches effect.
▲ with the addition of analog efex, I usually also reduce the opacity, so that the effect is not so strong, of course, this is also according to personal taste, this time to reduce to the original 85%.
It's fun to use filters, but be sure to stop, the biggest achievement of photo-fixing is to make the audience feel very beautiful at the same time also thought that the hands and feet as natural. To do this, you should also pay attention to whether the effect is too strong for each additional filter. Use layer masks for local applications, such as tonal contrast do not add to the landscape (I did see a so-called master on the Internet to make this problem), and finally reduce the opacity, so that to go too far before the photo. Return "The original picture a few steps, the whole natural sense will increase greatly." This time using only 55 filters of the three filters, since it is a free appointment, encourage everyone to try other effects, can definitely make a variety of styles.
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